The Louisiana Purchase was a sale of land by France to the United States. Canada ended up with a tiny sliver of that land at the northernmost edge of it because it extended north of the 49th parallel, where the United States and Britain negotiated in 1818 to put the border of the United States with what became Canada.
The purchase included land from fifteen present U.S. states and two Canadian provinces, including the entirety of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, ...
Ever wonder about that bit of the Louisiana Purchase that extends into Canada? Here's how parts of Alberta & Saskatchewan once came under Napoleon's rule.
The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land ...